It’s interesting that Latinos and Asians evidently have a higher opinion of the decency of American society than whites. But the main point here, obviously, is the dramatic shift among African-Americans. What could have caused it?

The only possible answer is that many Americans have opposed President Obama’s policies. But why would that cause African-Americans to think that our society is “discriminatory” rather than “decent”? No mystery there: in a well-coordinated campaign, the Democratic Party has relentlessly portrayed all disagreement with the Obama administration’s policies as “racist.” That contemptible and divisive tactic had seemed to produce no results, but we now see that it had one consequence: alienating African-Americans from their country.

Not discounting the number of racist assholes out there, the language of race is sometimes used because “class” is such a taboo word. Apologies if you already covered this: 37% of black Americans think there are two black “races”, one rich and one poor. They’re using “race” to describe class because we’re in the country where everyone is middle class. Well, unless you make less than McCain’s figure of seven million.

From the viewpoint of an old white man, the change in African-American opinion in the Rasmussen poll is understandable. Since elected, President Obama has done everything in his power to improve the plight of the middle class in this country, for everybody. Yet the Party of No opposes his leadership at every given opportunity, no matter what the issue. Resentment at having lost power runs rampant, as does racism among certain sectors in the Land of the Free. I no longer see American society as fair and decent either when 125 people die every day as a result of lack of health insurance, yet health insurance companies are allowed to continue to rape the American people… and the Party of No continues to repeat its mantra of No No No No NO.